Indonesia finds wreckage of missing surveillance plane carrying 10, one body


JAKARTA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities said on ‌Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province on the slope of a ‌fog-covered mountain and had recovered the body of one of the 10 people on board.

The ATR 42-500 turboprop owned by aviation group ‌Indonesia Air Transport (IAT) lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday at about 1:30 p.m. local time (0530 GMT) around the Maros region in South Sulawesi.

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